Ruth Kenny, a former Tate curator, is the owner of new ‘alternative florist’ Rosebud which draws on her background in art history.

Theatre auteur Bush Moukarzel speaks about the possibility of originality ahead of Lippy’s return to the Irish stage at the Abbey Theatre.

Weekender: |wiːkˈɛndə|– noun – what to do with your weekend.

Rather than the violence of capitalist socio-economic relations, the ‘violence’ of the title refers to the truck-jackings that hamper Abel’s business’ growth prospects.

The Dean Hotel is Brand Dublin incarnate.

Weekender: |wiːkˈɛndə|– noun – what to do with your weekend.

Stephen and David Flynn opened The Happy Pear in Wicklow ten years ago and have been championing healthy eating ever since.

My family said, ‘You’re going back into retail, you’re mad’ and I said, ‘Well, this is a different animal, it’s good stuff’ – Martin Thomas

We spoke with Sarah Davis-Goff ahead of the recent Dublin Book Festival about Tramp Press’ ethos and the literary landscape.

On its centenary, the 1914 Civic Exhibition has come back to our attention as the jump-off point for Phoenix Rising: Art and Civic Imagination at Hugh Lane

New magazine Guts is fuelled by personal and confessional writing that asks authors to expose themselves to the world for the sake of the reader, but also gives them a platform to put more of themselves to their work.

Weekender: |wiːkˈɛndə|– noun – what to do with your weekend.

Dave Darcy, the owner of One Strong Arm’s eponymous appendage, is a man on a mission: to bring the oft-overlooked art of letterpress printing back into the forefront of Irish design community’s consciousness and beyond.

For two years, Artfetch has been making the buying and selling of quality art easy by providing an online platform to curate works.

There’s a sort of a sickness when it comes to space in Dublin – we red-tape it, we neglect it, we stigmatise it, we pull it out from under people, we inflate its value, we polarise it north and south, we disregard its past, and we have a utilitarian approach to its every facet. Dealing with space in Dublin brings you to the coalface of the city’s issues no matter where you stand.

Gavin Lynch’s family has been farming around the village of Donard and the Glen of Imaal at the foot of the Wicklow mountains for more than 150 years.

This is Canteen at the Market, run by Soizic Humbert and James Sheridan. They open for lunch Wednesday through to Saturday and welcome evening patrons on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights for dinner.

Dublin’s property market is something of a shambles at the moment. With this month’s Open House festival in mind, we went on a mission to get inside the walls of some people who are thinking outside the box with their living spaces.